to be fair the speakers aren’t that bad, the woofers at least, good large magnets, though I don’t believe the “400W” rating on them :laugh_at:

piezo tweeters are harsh and thats nothing to do with my ears getting old, I thought they were harsh in ’89 :laugh_at: maybe good for electronic dog whistle but thats probably against EU animal welfare laws today and quite right too. I expect if I even used one for my plan to automatically caterwaul that bad cat (it woke me up again and has shit in my neighbours garden so that is two strikes) I’d find the door off the hinges at 6am and both cops and RSPCA waiting there.

TRS jacks are normal for active monitors -but for speaker level that is bare metal what could be carrying a high voltage if the jack lead is plugged in at the amp end. !sinner69! was given a hi fi amp from the late 80s with old skool class A power supply (no noisy switchmode) what has the lightning flash warning at the speaker terminals, and various versions have approval markings from the electric safety authorities of 3 Scandinavian nations – others have a post horn marking (the German Communications Ministry had to approve one model for some reason). Now that is hardcore audio kit :laugh_at: raaa

to be fair the bulk of my neighbours don’t mind, one lad plays guitar and sometimes dubstep (though he flatly denied he had been playing dubstep when I was chatting to him, not that I would have even minded), others were playing some Eurodance which was dubious even by my standards :laugh_at:

A friend of mine is the drawing office manager at Celestion who still have a design office here (I go past it on the way to our main rural site) and believe you me if I wanted to din the ears of half the neighbourhood I could easily achieve that.. (the whole lot is actually carefully sized to not take the piss and eventually allow me to power it from eco-friendly but resillient power sources)

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